That was sort of my thing, too. If I want the book NOW NOW NOW RIGHT NOW, I should be willing to pay more for it. When the new Stephen King came out, I paid triple what someone who waits for the paperback will pay. So I don't feel that asking more for an electronic edition of that super-hot new book is actually an imposition, and I think we're sort of being jerks if we say that paying more for an eBook of a hardcover is always always wrong.
I sadly think that whack-a-mole is going to be the only solution...and oddly, I have to wonder if that's not part of what's making some publishers try to retain more of a share of the electronic rights. It is, after all, DAW and not me that has to do the work of shooting pirates. They probably want to pay for the armada.
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Date: 2010-02-02 03:13 pm (UTC)I sadly think that whack-a-mole is going to be the only solution...and oddly, I have to wonder if that's not part of what's making some publishers try to retain more of a share of the electronic rights. It is, after all, DAW and not me that has to do the work of shooting pirates. They probably want to pay for the armada.